Monthly Archives: March 2002

Blogzilla – Like Cam, I’m going to keep an eye on this site!

I’m a Mandrake Club member. I paid $60 for a year’s subscription. Am I upset that I can’t get Star Office for free? No, that doesn’t bother me. I paid for the membership so that the development of Free Software would be supported.
And to those that say that Star Office is closed source software, and that Mandrake shouldn’t support it, each copy of that software sold probably helps keep Sun interested in funding development of the GPL Open Office suite.
I’ll use Open Office anyway, on the very rare occasion that I have to open a Word document.

I went searching freshmeat for genealogy software and found several insteresting projects.

MplayerXP – multi-threaded Mplayer. I can’t imagine the original author will take this lying down, even though it’s perfectly legal to do so, and covered by the GPL.

Daypop Top 40 leads Slashdot, CNN – That should really be “Web loggers lead Slashdot, CNN. Day Pop only reports what we post about. (and does a fine job of it too!)

Did you notice my trail of links below where I finally got to the destination site. JOHO talks about linking weblog entries that are all related. David called it blogthreading. How?

Daypop Top 40 leads Slashdot, CNN – That should really be “Web loggers lead Slashdot, CNN. Day Pop only reports what we post about. (and does a fine job of it too!)

Did you notice my trail of links below where I finally got to the destination site. JOHO talks about linking weblog entries that are all related. David called it blogthreading. How?

EC cracks down on local-loop unbundling – will it make a difference? ha! Watch out for flying pigs! (sorry, used that one before)

One in three drivers have ear to phone at wheel. Hopefully this will become as socially unacceptable as drink driving.

From Poochkiss, Corporation Reaches Goal, Shuts Down

The previously mentioned article on open software and the “conditions attached” to it has a response from Kevin Lyda in this ILUG message. It would seem that violating the GPL is easier/less costly to rectify than violating a closed source license such as those protected by the BSA.

damn, damn, damn, damn, damn… I’m invited to two weddings on the 27th of July this summer. Both couples are good friends, both weddings will be great fun, I want to go to both weddings. *sigh*